Growing up in Texas in the 2000s, new-generation rap-rock star Teezo Touchdown was largely unfamiliar with Talking Heads. But as he was making his own records and plotting a stage show, some of his colleagues thought he’d be inspired by the band and called up a clip from its 1984 concert movie, Stop Making Sense. “The opening shot of David Byrne coming out with a boombox and doing ‘Psycho Killer’ — I had a true discovery moment,” Teezo recalls. “With what he was doing, and the production and the visuals, they had the total package.
- 5/10/2024
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
French director Yann Gozlan is set to reunite with Pierre Niney, the French star of his two most successful movies “Un homme idéal” and “Black Box,” for his next film, “Gourou.”
“Gourou” is being co-produced by Wassim Beji at Wy Productions, the Paris-based company behind “Black Box and “Un Homme Ideal,” and Niney’s banner Ninety Films.
While the plot is currently under wraps, the project is being teased as a deep dive into the world of coaching and follows the rise of a personal development guru who turns out to be toxic. The script is by Jean-Baptiste Delafon, whose credits include “Of Money and Blood” which played at Venice, and Gozlan.
One of France’s most bankable and busiest French actors, Niney won a Cesar Award for his performance as French fashion legend Yves Saint Laurent in Jalil Lespert’s biopic in 2015, and went on to work with Anne Fontaine...
“Gourou” is being co-produced by Wassim Beji at Wy Productions, the Paris-based company behind “Black Box and “Un Homme Ideal,” and Niney’s banner Ninety Films.
While the plot is currently under wraps, the project is being teased as a deep dive into the world of coaching and follows the rise of a personal development guru who turns out to be toxic. The script is by Jean-Baptiste Delafon, whose credits include “Of Money and Blood” which played at Venice, and Gozlan.
One of France’s most bankable and busiest French actors, Niney won a Cesar Award for his performance as French fashion legend Yves Saint Laurent in Jalil Lespert’s biopic in 2015, and went on to work with Anne Fontaine...
- 3/15/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Another day, another outrageous answer from a Family Feud contestant.
Steve Harvey has been accustomed to some wild responses from his contestants at the podium, and a recent answer had the Family Feud host shaking his head in disbelief.
A competitor named Frantz from the Chery family went up against Nicole from the Russell family for their podium face-off, and he may have experienced a Freudian slip of sorts.
Steve asked them to “Name a person you might be secretly attracted to.”
Frantz was the first to hit his buzzer, and when Steve called on him, he responded, “Your best friend’s girl.”
Steve was shocked by Frantz’s answer and stared at him with an intense glare as he shook his head back and forth.
Steve Harvey shakes his head in disbelief at a Family Feud contestant’s saucy answer
Not only was Steve astounded, but the studio audience was,...
Steve Harvey has been accustomed to some wild responses from his contestants at the podium, and a recent answer had the Family Feud host shaking his head in disbelief.
A competitor named Frantz from the Chery family went up against Nicole from the Russell family for their podium face-off, and he may have experienced a Freudian slip of sorts.
Steve asked them to “Name a person you might be secretly attracted to.”
Frantz was the first to hit his buzzer, and when Steve called on him, he responded, “Your best friend’s girl.”
Steve was shocked by Frantz’s answer and stared at him with an intense glare as he shook his head back and forth.
Steve Harvey shakes his head in disbelief at a Family Feud contestant’s saucy answer
Not only was Steve astounded, but the studio audience was,...
- 3/2/2024
- by Mona Wexler
- Monsters and Critics
All four members of Talking Heads appeared on Wednesday’s episode of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert as part of their reunion surrounding the 40th anniversary theatrical re-release of Stop Making Sense.
In introducing the band, Stephen Colbert spoke about his own fandom. “I was in my sophomore year of college. That summer before… Speaking in Tongues comes out. That spring, Stop Making Sense comes out. So I am absolutely levitating talking to you right now,” Colbert remarked.
“I had tickets to see you at Uva in Fall 1983,” Colbert continued. “I had a paper due the next day for my Shakespeare class and I did the paper instead. Tina [Weymouth], how big of a mistake did I make?”
During the three-segment interview, Weymouth, David Byrne, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison discussed their formation and early days of touring, including a show at a pizza shop in which a fire eater opened for them.
In introducing the band, Stephen Colbert spoke about his own fandom. “I was in my sophomore year of college. That summer before… Speaking in Tongues comes out. That spring, Stop Making Sense comes out. So I am absolutely levitating talking to you right now,” Colbert remarked.
“I had tickets to see you at Uva in Fall 1983,” Colbert continued. “I had a paper due the next day for my Shakespeare class and I did the paper instead. Tina [Weymouth], how big of a mistake did I make?”
During the three-segment interview, Weymouth, David Byrne, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison discussed their formation and early days of touring, including a show at a pizza shop in which a fire eater opened for them.
- 10/26/2023
- by Bryan Kress
- Consequence - Music
Watching “Stop Making Sense” in 4K IMAX at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival was a transporting, immersive, joyous experience. Some of us also saw the 1983 Talking Heads concert tour promoting their fifth album, “Speaking in Tongues”; when Jonathan Demme saw the show, the director asked if he could document the concerts. The band, who admired Demme films such as “Caged Heat” and “Melvin and Howard,” loved the idea.
Demme shot the film over three performances in December 1983 at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles. Four months later, it was in theaters and grossed $5 million. Forty years later, the band holds the film rights. They worked with A24 to release the restored 4K version for its exclusive IMAX run on September 22 before heading to conventional theaters September 29 around the world.
At the Toronto world premiere, even the band rose up in their vertiginous IMAX seats and danced — who could resist “Road to Nowhere,...
Demme shot the film over three performances in December 1983 at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles. Four months later, it was in theaters and grossed $5 million. Forty years later, the band holds the film rights. They worked with A24 to release the restored 4K version for its exclusive IMAX run on September 22 before heading to conventional theaters September 29 around the world.
At the Toronto world premiere, even the band rose up in their vertiginous IMAX seats and danced — who could resist “Road to Nowhere,...
- 9/22/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The 40th anniversary 4K-cut of Stop Making Sense continues to make a lot of cents.
In the wake of the Talking Heads A24 re-release racking up the biggest grossing Imax live event ever with close to $641K, we’re hearing that showtimes for this weekend’s Imax run are already selling out.
Move over, Barbie (which is getting her first release in Imax this Friday for one week), because you’re going to have to contend with the Talking Heads in the house, not Ken.
Originally the re-release of the 1984 Jonathan Demme concert film was bound to run in around 150 Imax auditoriums, now it’s 300. That’s a nice appetizer for any pop rock aficionado waiting in the lobby for the Taylor Swift: Eras Tour concert to start. Stop Making Sense expands again next Friday, Sept. 29.
After dancing in their seats at their TIFF reunion last week, the Talking Heads...
In the wake of the Talking Heads A24 re-release racking up the biggest grossing Imax live event ever with close to $641K, we’re hearing that showtimes for this weekend’s Imax run are already selling out.
Move over, Barbie (which is getting her first release in Imax this Friday for one week), because you’re going to have to contend with the Talking Heads in the house, not Ken.
Originally the re-release of the 1984 Jonathan Demme concert film was bound to run in around 150 Imax auditoriums, now it’s 300. That’s a nice appetizer for any pop rock aficionado waiting in the lobby for the Taylor Swift: Eras Tour concert to start. Stop Making Sense expands again next Friday, Sept. 29.
After dancing in their seats at their TIFF reunion last week, the Talking Heads...
- 9/21/2023
- by Natalie Sitek and Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
The entire Talking Heads section at Toronto’s Scotiabank IMAX Theatre on Monday night stood up and danced during their landmark concert film, Stop Making Sense, instigated by enthusiastic audience members, especially at the back who were on their feet as if at a live show. One person even leapt over the railing, ran across the aisle, and sprinted up the stairs then back to his seat, lickety split.
It was that kind of atmosphere for the world premiere of the newly restored 4K version of the Jonathan Demme-directed concert film celebrating its 40th anniversary as part of the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival: Joyous. Fun. Clapping and cheering included, although it was hard to tell to if it was live or the December 1983 audience at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood. Such is the brilliance of digital surround sound.
It was also hard to see in the dark theater...
It was that kind of atmosphere for the world premiere of the newly restored 4K version of the Jonathan Demme-directed concert film celebrating its 40th anniversary as part of the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival: Joyous. Fun. Clapping and cheering included, although it was hard to tell to if it was live or the December 1983 audience at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood. Such is the brilliance of digital surround sound.
It was also hard to see in the dark theater...
- 9/12/2023
- by Karen Bliss
- Consequence - Music
At a Toronto International Film Festival that saw its wattage dimmed by a SAG-AFTRA strike, it took a Talking Heads reunion at the 40th Anniversary of Stop Making Sense to crank up the festival’s volume to an 11 in Spinal Tap-speak.
Talking Heads’ David Byrne in ‘Stop Making Sense,’ 1984
The new A24 re-release of the Jonathan Demme concert film, which moderator Spike Lee billed as “the greatest concert film ever,” is a 4K Imax restoration.
And the night literally lived up to the large format exhibitor’s slogan “Watch a movie, or be part of one” as Talking Heads bandmembers David Byrne, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz and Lee himself got up and danced during such numbers as “Burning Down the House” and “Once in a Lifetime” during the screening. Talk about a cinema-surround show.
Tina Weymouth, Everett Collection
Stop Making Sense played at Toronto’s Scotiabank auditorium No.
Talking Heads’ David Byrne in ‘Stop Making Sense,’ 1984
The new A24 re-release of the Jonathan Demme concert film, which moderator Spike Lee billed as “the greatest concert film ever,” is a 4K Imax restoration.
And the night literally lived up to the large format exhibitor’s slogan “Watch a movie, or be part of one” as Talking Heads bandmembers David Byrne, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz and Lee himself got up and danced during such numbers as “Burning Down the House” and “Once in a Lifetime” during the screening. Talk about a cinema-surround show.
Tina Weymouth, Everett Collection
Stop Making Sense played at Toronto’s Scotiabank auditorium No.
- 9/12/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
It usually starts around “Burning Down the House.” That’s six numbers into Stop Making Sense, the 1984 Talking Heads concert film, and the first number to feature not just the central quartet — David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth, and Chris Frantz — but the whole expanded band they were using during that tour. People get up and start dancing in their seats, in the aisles, in the front, and in the back of the theater. I’ve been to screenings where it starts a little earlier, around “Thank You for Sending Me an Angel,...
- 9/12/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
The hottest ticket at TIFF this year was for a 40-year-old concert film of a band that broke up in 1991.
Toronto audiences Monday night were treated to the world premiere of the new, IMAX, 4K restored version of Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense, originally released in 1984.
The band members: Frontman David Byrne, bassist Tina Weymouth, drummer Chris Frantz and keyboarder/guitarist Jerry Harrison all attended the screening at Toronto’s Scotiabank Theatre and took part in a Q&a afterward with Spike Lee, who directed the concert film David Byrne’s American Utopia — which premiered in Toronto three years ago.
“I want to go on the record: This is the greatest concert film ever!” said Lee of Demme’s movie, which was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December 1983, as The Talking Heads were touring to promote their Speaking in Tongues album.
Toronto audiences Monday night were treated to the world premiere of the new, IMAX, 4K restored version of Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense, originally released in 1984.
The band members: Frontman David Byrne, bassist Tina Weymouth, drummer Chris Frantz and keyboarder/guitarist Jerry Harrison all attended the screening at Toronto’s Scotiabank Theatre and took part in a Q&a afterward with Spike Lee, who directed the concert film David Byrne’s American Utopia — which premiered in Toronto three years ago.
“I want to go on the record: This is the greatest concert film ever!” said Lee of Demme’s movie, which was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December 1983, as The Talking Heads were touring to promote their Speaking in Tongues album.
- 9/12/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With Talking Heads set to reunite next month for a live Q&a about their legendary concert film, Stop Making Sense, David Byrne has reflected on their acrimonious breakup and expressed regret about how he handled the situation.
“As a younger person, I was not as pleasant to be around. When I was working on some Talking Heads shows, I was more of a little tyrant,” Byrne told People. “And then I learned to relax, and I also learned that collaborating with people, both sides get more if there’s a good relationship instead of me telling everybody what to do.”
He added, “I think [the end] wasn’t handled well. It was kind of ugly.”
As pioneers of new wave, Talking Heads released eight albums from their formation in 1975 through their split in December 1991. While speaking to the Los Angeles Times the following year, drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth...
“As a younger person, I was not as pleasant to be around. When I was working on some Talking Heads shows, I was more of a little tyrant,” Byrne told People. “And then I learned to relax, and I also learned that collaborating with people, both sides get more if there’s a good relationship instead of me telling everybody what to do.”
He added, “I think [the end] wasn’t handled well. It was kind of ugly.”
As pioneers of new wave, Talking Heads released eight albums from their formation in 1975 through their split in December 1991. While speaking to the Los Angeles Times the following year, drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth...
- 8/17/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
“Stop Making Sense,” the Talking Heads concert film breathlessly directed by the late, great Jonathan Demme, is returning to theaters this fall, newly restored for its 40th-ish anniversary (the movie actually came out in 1984 but was filmed in 1983).
While a re-release of “Stop Making Sense,” overseen by A24, is exciting, perhaps even more exciting is the fact that the band will reunite at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, September 11 for a chat moderated by Spike Lee. Lee directed the filmed version of David Byrne’s “American Utopia” for HBO.
Byrne will be joined by Jerry Harrison and the still-married Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth on stage. The chat will be live-broadcast for a special Global IMAX Live event that same night; the movie will then be in IMAX theaters exclusively on September 22 and everywhere September 29 “in a pristine new 4K restoration,” according to A24.
In a new interview...
While a re-release of “Stop Making Sense,” overseen by A24, is exciting, perhaps even more exciting is the fact that the band will reunite at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, September 11 for a chat moderated by Spike Lee. Lee directed the filmed version of David Byrne’s “American Utopia” for HBO.
Byrne will be joined by Jerry Harrison and the still-married Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth on stage. The chat will be live-broadcast for a special Global IMAX Live event that same night; the movie will then be in IMAX theaters exclusively on September 22 and everywhere September 29 “in a pristine new 4K restoration,” according to A24.
In a new interview...
- 8/17/2023
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
Talking Heads bandmates David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz and Jerry Harrison will make a public appearance together next month in Toronto for the first time since their 2002 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.
Bringing them together is the upcoming 40th anniversary of the group’s seminal concert film, Stop Making Sense. A newly restored version will screen in Imax at Cineplex’s Scotiabank Imax Theatre on September 11 as part of the Toronto Film Festival. Watch the trailer for the film below.
After that screening, Byrne, Weymouth, Frantz, and Harrison will sit for a Q&a moderated by filmmaker Spike Lee, who recently worked on the film version of Byrne’s Broadway show American Utopia. The screening and Q&a will be shown live in theaters across the world, with the refreshed Stop Making Sense premiering September 22 in tandem with distributor A24.
The concert film is peak Talking Heads,...
Bringing them together is the upcoming 40th anniversary of the group’s seminal concert film, Stop Making Sense. A newly restored version will screen in Imax at Cineplex’s Scotiabank Imax Theatre on September 11 as part of the Toronto Film Festival. Watch the trailer for the film below.
After that screening, Byrne, Weymouth, Frantz, and Harrison will sit for a Q&a moderated by filmmaker Spike Lee, who recently worked on the film version of Byrne’s Broadway show American Utopia. The screening and Q&a will be shown live in theaters across the world, with the refreshed Stop Making Sense premiering September 22 in tandem with distributor A24.
The concert film is peak Talking Heads,...
- 8/17/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
After 21 years of bitter estrangement, Talking Heads have agreed to come together for the first time since their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But don’t get overly excited. They aren’t booking a reunion tour or a headlining slot at Coachella next year. Instead, they will appear together at a 40th-anniversary screening of Stop Making Sense at the Toronto International Film Festival. Spike Lee will moderate a post-screening Q&a.
Talking Heads haven’t played a full concert together since the end of the Speaking...
Talking Heads haven’t played a full concert together since the end of the Speaking...
- 8/16/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Talking Heads’ David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison will reunite for a live Q&a celebrating the 40th anniversary of their legendary concert film, Stop Making Sense. It marks their first public appearance together in more than 20 years.
Moderated by filmmaker Spike Lee, the Q&a will take place at the Toronto International Film Festival following a screening of Stop Making Sense on Monday, September 11th. The event will broadcast live in select IMAX theaters around the world
Following its premiere at TIFF, the 4K restoration of Stop Making Sense will be released in theaters worldwide on September 22nd.
Accompanying the film will be a new deluxe edition of its soundtrack, due out on August 18th via Rhino Records. The expanded set includes the film’s full setlist as well as two previously unreleased songs, plus new liner notes from all four band members. Pre-orders are ongoing.
Moderated by filmmaker Spike Lee, the Q&a will take place at the Toronto International Film Festival following a screening of Stop Making Sense on Monday, September 11th. The event will broadcast live in select IMAX theaters around the world
Following its premiere at TIFF, the 4K restoration of Stop Making Sense will be released in theaters worldwide on September 22nd.
Accompanying the film will be a new deluxe edition of its soundtrack, due out on August 18th via Rhino Records. The expanded set includes the film’s full setlist as well as two previously unreleased songs, plus new liner notes from all four band members. Pre-orders are ongoing.
- 8/16/2023
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
Christian Petzold’s slow-burning Afire, shot by Hans Fromm, stars Paula Beer, Thomas Schubert, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs, and Matthias Brandt.
Friends Felix (Langston Uibel) and Leon (Thomas Schubert) are on their way to a summer house in the woods near the Baltic Sea when their car breaks down. Animal shrieks fill the air. The area had recently experienced a number of devastating wildfires. When they arrive on foot at the vacation home belonging to Felix’s family, which was supposed to be theirs alone to work on respective projects - a photography submission to...
Friends Felix (Langston Uibel) and Leon (Thomas Schubert) are on their way to a summer house in the woods near the Baltic Sea when their car breaks down. Animal shrieks fill the air. The area had recently experienced a number of devastating wildfires. When they arrive on foot at the vacation home belonging to Felix’s family, which was supposed to be theirs alone to work on respective projects - a photography submission to...
- 7/8/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
This December will mark 40 years since the Talking Heads staged the three-night Hollywood residency that director Jonathan Demme filmed for the celebrated concert film, Stop Making Sense. The movie will get a theatrical re-release later this year, with a 4K restoration thanks to A24, and the band will also drop an expanded reissue of the soundtrack on Aug. 18.
That album will feature two songs previously unavailable on the film’s soundtrack, including a lively rendition of “Cities,” out today, July 7. The single from 1979’s Fear of Music finds Byrne animatedly...
That album will feature two songs previously unavailable on the film’s soundtrack, including a lively rendition of “Cities,” out today, July 7. The single from 1979’s Fear of Music finds Byrne animatedly...
- 7/7/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Christian Petzold, the director of the well-timed summer movie Afire with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I’m really sure that we don’t have summer movies. The Americans have summer movies, the French have summer movies.”
Christian Petzold’s slow-burning Afire, shot by Hans Fromm, stars Paula Beer, Thomas Schubert, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs, and Matthias Brandt.
Nadja (Paula Beer) with Devid (Enno Trebs), Felix (Langston Uibel), and Leon (Thomas Schubert) in Afire
A scene in Leo McCarey’s An Affair To Remember (with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr); Sophie Calle’s Voir La Mer and Hiroshi Sugimoto’s photographs; Astrid Lindgren; a Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre touch; Uwe Johnson’s Mutmassungen über Jakob and Margarethe von Trotta’s Jahrestage series; Johan Wolfgang von Goethe; a Nanni Moretti quote; meeting Paul Dano’s Wildlife cinematographer Diego García (Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery Of Splendor) in Tel Aviv; Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Curt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak,...
Christian Petzold’s slow-burning Afire, shot by Hans Fromm, stars Paula Beer, Thomas Schubert, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs, and Matthias Brandt.
Nadja (Paula Beer) with Devid (Enno Trebs), Felix (Langston Uibel), and Leon (Thomas Schubert) in Afire
A scene in Leo McCarey’s An Affair To Remember (with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr); Sophie Calle’s Voir La Mer and Hiroshi Sugimoto’s photographs; Astrid Lindgren; a Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre touch; Uwe Johnson’s Mutmassungen über Jakob and Margarethe von Trotta’s Jahrestage series; Johan Wolfgang von Goethe; a Nanni Moretti quote; meeting Paul Dano’s Wildlife cinematographer Diego García (Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery Of Splendor) in Tel Aviv; Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Curt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak,...
- 7/2/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Beta Cinema will sell international rights to “When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before,” the latest production from German powerhouse Komplizen Film, best known for Oscar nominees “Toni Erdmann” and “Spencer,” and directed by Sonja Heiss. As announced today, the moving dramedy will celebrate its world premiere at the Berlinale, opening the Generation 14plus section. Warner Bros. will release the film in Germany on Feb. 23.
The film is based on the bestselling autobiographical novel by Joachim Meyerhoff, which sold more than two million copies in Germany alone, and has been published in more than 10 further territories, including France, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Finland and the Netherlands. It tells a tale of tender romance and longing for departure and arrival.
Growing up in the grounds of one of Germany’s largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow … different. For Joachim, the hospital director’s youngest son, the patients are like family.
The film is based on the bestselling autobiographical novel by Joachim Meyerhoff, which sold more than two million copies in Germany alone, and has been published in more than 10 further territories, including France, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Finland and the Netherlands. It tells a tale of tender romance and longing for departure and arrival.
Growing up in the grounds of one of Germany’s largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow … different. For Joachim, the hospital director’s youngest son, the patients are like family.
- 1/18/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Chris Frantz isn’t too happy with Bob Dylan.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, the Talking Heads drummer responded to a perceived slight in Dylan’s new book The Philosophy of Modern Song.
In the book, the iconic musician writes, “Elvis Costello and the Attractions were a better band than any of their contemporaries. Light years better.”
Read More: Brian Wilson Gets 80th-Birthday Wishes From Elton John, Bob Dylan & More
Though the Talking Heads were not mentioned, Frantz still took the comment personally.
“When I read that, I just thought, ‘Jesus, Bob,’” the drummer said. “’I understand you dig Elvis Costello, but did you have to put it that way?’”
His comments to Rolling Stone came after a Facebook post in which Frantz was considerably less diplomatic about his feelings.
“With all due respect to the Attractions and to drummer Pete Thomas in particular, I’d like to say to Bob...
Speaking to Rolling Stone, the Talking Heads drummer responded to a perceived slight in Dylan’s new book The Philosophy of Modern Song.
In the book, the iconic musician writes, “Elvis Costello and the Attractions were a better band than any of their contemporaries. Light years better.”
Read More: Brian Wilson Gets 80th-Birthday Wishes From Elton John, Bob Dylan & More
Though the Talking Heads were not mentioned, Frantz still took the comment personally.
“When I read that, I just thought, ‘Jesus, Bob,’” the drummer said. “’I understand you dig Elvis Costello, but did you have to put it that way?’”
His comments to Rolling Stone came after a Facebook post in which Frantz was considerably less diplomatic about his feelings.
“With all due respect to the Attractions and to drummer Pete Thomas in particular, I’d like to say to Bob...
- 11/17/2022
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
As a longtime Bob Dylan admirer who even caught one of his shows in the Sixties, Chris Frantz of Talking Heads was happy to pre-order a copy of The Philosophy of Modern Song, Dylan’s quixotic collection of essays on more than 60 songs. But when Frantz arrived at the second entry, about Elvis Costello’s “Pump It Up,” he was taken aback to read that, in Dylan’s words, “Elvis Costello and the Attractions were a better band than any of their contemporaries. Light years better.”
“When I read that,...
“When I read that,...
- 11/16/2022
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
French director Quentin Dupieux has begun shooting his 12th feature film Daaaaaali ! with a star ensemble French cast including Alain Chabat (Smoking Causes Coughing), Anaïs Demoustier (Alice And The Mayor), Pierre Niney (Frantz) and Gilles Lellouche (Little White Lies).
The picture charts the story of a French journalist who meets iconic, Surrealist artist Salvador Dali on a number of occasions for a documentary project which never gets off the ground.
Deadline, which has been tracking this project, has heard Dali will be played by multiple different actors across the course of the film.
Dupieux, who also goes under the alias of his DJ name Mr. Oizo, announced the start of the shoot on his Instagram account on Tuesday.
Other cast members named in his post included Edouard Baer (Adieu Paris), Pio Marmaï (The Divide), Jonathan Cohen, Hakim Jemili, Agnès Hurstel, Jérôme Niel, Marc Fraize and Didier Flamand.
The post suggested...
The picture charts the story of a French journalist who meets iconic, Surrealist artist Salvador Dali on a number of occasions for a documentary project which never gets off the ground.
Deadline, which has been tracking this project, has heard Dali will be played by multiple different actors across the course of the film.
Dupieux, who also goes under the alias of his DJ name Mr. Oizo, announced the start of the shoot on his Instagram account on Tuesday.
Other cast members named in his post included Edouard Baer (Adieu Paris), Pio Marmaï (The Divide), Jonathan Cohen, Hakim Jemili, Agnès Hurstel, Jérôme Niel, Marc Fraize and Didier Flamand.
The post suggested...
- 11/8/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman and Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
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